Death row prisoner uses civilian clothes, phony ID to trick deputy into letting him go.

This is pretty pathetic!!

Authorities continued to scour downtown Houston and the surrounding areas late Thursday for a death row convict who used a fake badge and a change of clothes to walk out of the Harris County Jail's Baker Street facility.

Charles Victor Thompson, 35, convicted in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in 1998, escaped about 3:30 p.m. while being held inside the high-security J Pod unit at the County Jail at 1200 Baker, officials said....

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There's really not much to say about this. How many levels of security did this guy have to slip through? How many locked doors? What a freakin' joke!

Peace

Originally posted by Dr Love
How many levels of security did this guy have to slip through?

Apparently just one.:p